Hill's Prescription Diet

Hill's Prescription Diet i/d Low Fat Digestive Care Dog Food review

We don't put a score on this food. It is a veterinary diet, formulated for a diagnosed condition and meant to be fed on a vet's advice. Your vet has seen your dog and we have not, so a number from us could only pull you towards their advice or away from it, and neither of those is ours to do. What follows is what the label declares, what the analysis works out at, and where to buy it, with no judgement attached to any of it.

This wet food is i/d Low Fat Digestive Care, part of Hill's Prescription Diet range. The maker puts it forward for dogs whose vet wants the fat in the bowl held right down.

WetAdult

A low-fat wet loaf from Hill's Prescription Diet range, put forward for dogs whose vet wants the fat in the bowl held right down. Fat is declared at 1.9%, which works back to 8.8% of dry matter. We set out what the label says and leave the judgement to your vet.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose vet has prescribed a low-fat digestive diet
Fat held to 8.8% of dry matter by design
A calcium figure that works back to 0.88% of dry matter
Every trace element given a dose on the label

Worth watching

Pork liver sits alongside chicken, though only chicken carries a percentage
Category terms (meat and animal derivatives, various sugars) name no source
At 79 kcal per 100g the packet asks for a lot of food; your vet sets the real portion

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size, on a vet's advice. Agree the daily amount with the practice that prescribed it.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativeschicken 3%The digestible list names pork liver and chicken.
CerealsMaize starch and rice, per the digestible list.
Various sugarsNo source named; usually a texture and palatability job.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Minerals
Vegetables0.8%
Eggs and egg derivativesDried eggs, per the digestible list.
Oils and fatsHeld low by design.
Seeds, fruit

Iron, iodine, copper, manganese and zinc, with potassium alginate, a seaweed-derived gel that sets the loaf.

Contains pork liver as well as chicken.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken 3%), cereals, various sugars, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals, vegetables (0.8%), eggs and egg derivatives, oils and fats, seeds, fruit. Highly digestible ingredients: Pork liver, chicken, maize starch, rice, dried eggs, vegetable oil.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

78.7 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

1.9%

Fibre

0.41%

Ash

1.4%

Moisture

78.4%

Dry weight

Protein

23.1%

Fat

8.8%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

6.5%

Carbs

59.7%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

39.6%

Added water

13.4%

Carbs

42.5%

Veg

0.8%

Oils

0.9%

Other

2.8%